Vintage pebble floor tile launches Tex’s gray, black, orange and white bathroom remodel

If you feel like you’ve seen this pebble mosaic bathroom floor tile before, it could be because you read the story  — 1,000’s of square feet of vintage mosaic tile — great prices  that we featured over the course of several days back in March. Reader Tex saw that stockpile of NOS tile mosaic as the perfect catalyst to start their retro modern bath remodel — and I don’t blame ’em. Look at that gorgeous floor!

Tex writes:

Good morning, Pam!

A couple of notes about this project:

This is the master bathroom in our 1950’s home in Tulsa, Ok. It was previously remodeled, I’m guessing in the 1980’s, with white tile. White tile floor, white tile shower, white vanity, white, white, white! The medicine cabinet was a monstrous three-door mirrored disaster, with built-in Hollywood lights. I re-purposed a vintage chest of drawers for the vanity and of course, you know where I bought the tile. The seller cut me a break on the price because I bought 40 SF of it. It was quite a job for such a tiny room, with lots of OMG WHY DID THEY *DO THAT??*

I love your site- learn new things all the time! I’ve been collecting MCM since 1982.

Have a great day!

Great job Tex! Those NOS mosaic tiles are the focal point of the whole bathroom. I love how you pulled the orange out and used that in the vanity and the accents — it makes the vintage tile feel very modern. I’m also digging that you used grey grout — which works well with the tiles and must be much easier to keep looking clean.

I bet Tex smiles every time they walk into their new bathroom. Instead of white, white, white the bathroom is filled with a confetti of color.

See our other stories with readers who bought this NOS mosaic tile:

• Pam’s bizarro twin used the NOS tile as a kitchen backsplash
• Julia made a decorative table top with the NOS mosaic tile

Readers — did you buy and use this NOS tile mosaic for a project at your house? If so, we’d love to see — send your photos and stories to retrorenovationkate@gmail.com.